The Environmental Studies Program aims to provide students with the breadth of understanding and the skills necessary for resolving environmental questions and creating a sustainable future on scales ranging from local to global. It does so through integrated, problem-oriented study and a broad range of courses across disciplines and schools. The ES Program draws upon NYU’s strong faculty base in departments of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS), such as Biology and Philosophy, the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (Courant/FAS), the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law (Law School), the M.A. Program in Bioethics: Life, Health and Environment (FAS), and the Environmental Conservation Education Program (Steinhardt School), as well as in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Stern School of  Business, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and the School of Medicine, reflecting the wide-ranging expertise and concerns of the ES Program. Learn more about the faculty teaching in Environmental Studies.

The ES Program offers opportunities to develop interests in a number of areas, including environmental science; environmental values, policy, and law; earth system science; public health; urban environmental problems; climate change; energy systems; environmental monitoring; environmental justice; and our complex relations with both domesticated and wild nature.